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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3 | The History Cooperative
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Book Review


Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning. By Thomas Neville Bonner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xviii, 376 pp. $36.00, ISBN 0-8018-7124-7.)
There are few historians equal to the task of writing Abraham Flexner's biography. Therefore, I was pleased and gratified when Thomas Neville Bonner, himself an educator, eminent scholar, and former administrator, took up the challenge. Having experienced firsthand the challenges and vicissitudes of academic politics, he has provided us with an outstanding and thorough study of this remarkable American educator who, more than anyone before or since, defined what a medical school should be, left indelible marks on public education, and founded one of the most innovative centers of advanced study in the world. Bonner adroitly portrays in this masterly biography what America and the world owes to Flexner for his vision, creativity, tenacity, and advocacy of progressive education. . . .
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